Scientific classification

Class: Aves

Order: Psittaciformes

Family: Psittacidae

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Recent reappraisal of higher taxonomy of parrots#R proposed arrangement into three superfamilies, here treated as families (Strigopidae, Cacatuidae, Psittacidae); same study split Psittacidae, as here defined, into three families, with additional recognition of Psittrichasidae (Psittrichas to Coracopsis, below) and Psittaculidae (Psephotus to Micropsitta, below); in present work, separation of these families considered to require further study and perhaps additional support. In the past, present family was often split into two, with recognition of family Loriidae; at the other extreme, it was sometimes considered to include all Psittaciformes.

Subfamily: Arinae

Genus:Touit G. R. Gray, 1855

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Older genus name Pyrrhulopsis has been demonstrated to refer to species currently placed herein, but due to long and almost universal use of present genus name, as well as confusion generated surrounding use of Pyrrhulopsis (see Prosopeia), application has been filed with ICZN for suppression of name Pyrrhulopsis for purposes of priority and its conversion into an objective junior synonym of Touit#R#R.